Not that long ago, I put out our new Comment Rules for the Redneck Bar and Grill. I didn’t really expect spammers to read them, but it made me feel a little better just to put it into words. Following all the hassle with our site being hacked, I decided that the time had come to clean up the joint. Lame comments and spam have no place here. (Read this post if you need to know why you should upgrade your WordPress installation.)
I figure other bloggers will understand where I was coming from. Most of our readers do. Even if they aren’t “real” bloggers and are just in it for whatever money they can scrounge up by leaving lame comments in an attempt at gaining links for their “niche” sites.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve visited quite a few Dofollow blogs myself in order to promote my other sites. The thing is, I always tried to find posts on which I had a real comment to give, which involved reading. I also followed the rules, if they were visible, such as using a first name or not using any keywords. I would end up reading a lot more than commenting, which takes a lot of time but was very interesting.
We deleted several hundred comments this week, a lot of them actual out and out drug spam. I kinda miss the sex spam, it was more interesting to read before deleting. All of these stupid Tamiflu spams are borriinngg! Then we deleted a few that completely broke our rules for this site but seemed like they might be written by actual bloggers. For instance, here is one left by a person named Folders Printing:
I do not agree with this clause you put above
“Keywords are allowed. We have the handy dandy Keyword Luv plugin and we encourage it’s use. However, you need to use this tool properly. I want to see your name, and then your keyword, like this: Johnny@Truck Nuts or Suzanne@Scrap Book Stickers. If your name isn’t first, then forget it! Delete!”
As i have seen so many commenters not following this, they use only their keywords as their name, what about that, you should consider all equally.
Well, Folders, sorry you don’t agree with our rules. Guess what? Too bad. Not only do I not find your comment funny or clever, but you’re parents gave you a really lousy name. Mr. and Mrs. Printing really dropped the ball. I bet with a name like Folders, grade school was hell. But that’s nothing compared to the handle on this next commenter. Lets see what Gestational Diabetes had to say for him (her?)self:
“I like this posting! It helps a lot of people especially those who are suffering from gestational diabetes. Aside from the details mentioned above, are there any other information you can share?”
Gestational, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that your comment was not quite fully developed. It needs to go back into the oven. Your premature typing needs a little more research. For instance, were you aware that virtually the entire post you commented on was pure fiction, conceived by us? It might surprise you to know that a lot of our details “mentioned above” are illegitimate. I suggest you abort your attempts to spam us. Also, there are no any other information we can share.
There were a few others, but Folders Printing and Gestational Diabetes sure took it this week. I’m sure there will be a few more in the spam folder before long.
Dude, I went to elementary school with a Folder Printing. Wonder if it’s the same person? …. yeah right.
As for Gestational, I need to develop my more generic comments that I can leave on more blogs. Ummm…no.
Thanks for sharing a few of these pretty funny. Thanks for going out and actually reading other blogs and thanks for the keywordluv.
Thanks for dropping by, Keith and Eric!
As Keith pointed out, reading is fundamental.
Eric, was the Folders Printing at your school a boy or a girl? The name just doesn’t seem very gender specific…
Damn. I thought I was the only one who went to school with the Printing family. However, I must have gone to school with a second cousin twice removed as her name was Laundry-Folders Printing.
She was one of those girls who always used two first names like Mary Jane or Sarah Jessica and she was pretty uptight about it. She refused to answer to Laundry.
Side note: My anti-spam word is jackhammer and I enjoyed that immensely. However, I would love to see gingah or sweep the leg show up.
Naturally, if you do add those words I’m sure I’ll never get them. And I don’t want to spam the site just to see gingah. Although it would be awesome.
If I had to spam you, just to get my word, I would write a continuing story in my comments so it was entertaining.
Thoughts? Opinions?
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my keywordluv seems to be broken and has nto let me reply to anything for ages
i have sent you emails but they never get replied to
i love this site and am not a spammer
I never risked adding a do-follow plugin to my personal blog, you must be digging through tens of comments each day and each day 9 out of them are pure spam.
But then, your blog is entertaining enough for random bypassers, even those who scout for links.
I do agree that you should only keep real comments, from people that REALLY read the blog posts and contribute in ANY way to the conversation or the content of your blog post.
We usually get tones of “excellent” or “that’s great!” etc etc.
You have very good guidelines, if people don’t want to read them, their lose.
Also, I wish that the same team that enabled this plugin to work, would add some global spam list, where you could add addresses and urls of spammers out there, and then every site with this plugin would automatically dissaprove their comments or something like that, just an idea tho.
Thanks,
Chris
That’s so funny! I get those same “I like this post because blah blah blah” comments all the time on my blog. It’s weird some days I get nothing and then other days I get like 40 comment spams. Thanks PayDay Loans!
It’s pretty cool that you’re using KeywordLuv and allowing us to get link love. I’m using BlogEngine.Net and I don’t know if they have any cool plugins like that. In fact I don’t even know if BlogEngine.Net puts a nofollow on the comments. It probably doesn’t since I get all that comment spam. I guess I should think about getting WordPress.
I’m rather envious in that your spammers seems to leave complete sentences that actually make sense. My spammers usually say something like “great wording of a tricky subject – I you thank take pills. Think you? I will advise.” And never any boob shots. Don’t they know my blog is all about boob shots???
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What is this, a class reunion? Man, I haven’t seen old Folders in ages! And Gestational, well what can I say except fuggedaboutit? Dude, good time, good times…
@cardiogirl : I was the guy who sat behind you and Sarah Jessica, I mean Laundry, and cribbed off your math tests…
Cardiogirl: you’re on! Of course, to make it interesting, I’ll have to add a few more words… How was Laundry-Folders Printing at math?
Petra: Yup, we’ve got some real good spammers. Now how come I never see and boob shots whhen I visit?
Oh sweet Lord in heaven. I got GINGA when I came over here. First pull on the slot machine!
Sweep the Leg! Today is my lucky day.
What’s up with these key words? I don’t know how to use them but it looks like everyone else is writing firstname at keyword.
So I’m gonna try an experiment here and add Sweep the Leg to my name. Again, I have no idea what that does, but I’m going for it. And let me know if I immediately went to spam.
I will be back to look for Sweep the Leg as an anti-spam word. That’s a promise and a threat.
Oh yeah, Laundry-Folders Printing sucked at math. *I* was the one who carried Erick.
@Erick You’re welcome. But I feel the need to say, cheaters never prosper, gingah.
p.s. Your anti-spam spelling of gingah is a variation it seems.
I prefer the more formal gingah with an H. I see you go with the colloquial spelling that drops the H.
Potato-potahto. Just thrilled to see it.
p.p.s. Guess what. In my excitement I *forgot to type the anti-spam word.*
Now I have jackhammer. Dammit.
.-= cardiogirl @ Sweep the Leg´s last blog ..I really want that font =-.
Cardiogirl: That was supposed to be Gingah with an ‘h’. Whoops.
So far you have never been in spam, just the moderation .
You should pick keywords you want your site to show up in searches on Google for. For instance, if you want web searchers who type “sweep the leg” into the Google window, then you are right on target! Of course, that might be a pretty tough keyword to crack so it might take some time… if you went after “Jacked Gingah”, you would own that one in short order since there is very little competition.
You’re just going to encourage this bad behavior of mine with all of these bitchin’ anti-spam words.
Just guess what I got. (waits for a minute)
Jazz hands! This. Is. AWESOME!
Also, I now feel the need to play around with key words. I will own Jacked Gingah and Sweep the Leg in short order.
Unfortunately, that means I must dominate at your site. I apologize in advance, but I will do my best to make my comments interesting and on topic.
.-= cardiogirl @ Jacked Gingah´s last blog ..I really want that font =-.
Cardiogirl: HaHa, when everyone else is probably whining inside about these words, you are running with it
Just make sure you are interesting and on topic, or DELETE!
Just kidding, you’re on the beer buddies list. We won’t delete unless you really start causing an unseemly scene.
I would love to try keywordluv, but then I know that when the spammers search for “keywordluv + keyword” those bastards will find me. As an experiment I disabled the nofollow attribute on a wordpress blog I have, and only mention “dofollow” on an image. That way, they can’t find me that easy!
like this site,keywordluv plugin is good 4 comment poster it reward comment author and prevent spamy comments.
i think you are very clear about your spam rules since many people post spam comments without reading the rules and didn’t get the approval. so its better to comment in proper manner.
It is a good idea to keep blog clean and readable. So you did a good job but do nor forget to take care of good comments. Like me.. he.. he.. he..
Yes, sometimes I get 100′s of comments in my Akismet, thanks to Akismet, otherwise how can I keep on deleting every individual comments.